[Samba] ms dfs? What is it?

Michael Heironimus mkh01 at earthlink.net
Wed Nov 6 18:30:01 GMT 2002


On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:37:20PM +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 04:39:59PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote:
> > It's a "distributed filesystem" for Windows, allowing you to split the
> > logical view of shares from the physical locations. You have one
> > top-level DFS share that can be mounted by 95 and newer clients (as far
> > [ ... ]
> 
> But I guess it uses the SMB protocol for the basics?

Right, the actually share connections are done with SMB. I don't think
the real servers even know they're being accessed via a DFS mount.

-- 
Michael Heironimus



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